plenty to do as well, with an excellent variety of artists, festival food, a mini film festival, and much more.,
21. Which festivals are free of charge?
A. Southside Fall Festival and Fall Into Arts Festival
B. Seymour Apple Festival and Southside Fall Festival,
C. Humansville Fall Festival and Fall Into Arts Festival
D. Seymour Apple Festival and Marionville Apple Festival.
22. What makes Humansville Fall Festival special this year?
A. Fun activities on Saturday.
B. The duration of the festival.
C. The area of the hosting town.
D. Musicians' live performance.
23. Fall Into Arts Festival is specially welcomed by .
A. movie lovers B. modern artists
C. visitors of all ages D. families with kids
In a win for literary fiction amid declining sales, Sally Rooney's novel Normal People has been named Waterstones book of the year in 2018.
Rooney's second novel, which follows two young people falling in love in Ireland, has sold 41,000 copies in hardback in the UK since it was released in August-five times the hardback sales of her 2017 debut, Conversations With Friends. At 27, Rooney is now the youngest winner of the award, which is given by the UK's biggest bookshop chain, Waterstones.
Normal People received almost universal applause upon its release. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize, the book won novel of the year at the An Post Irish book awards in November of2018 and has also been shortlisted for the Costa novel of the year, announced in January of 2019.
The reader response to Normal People had been astonishing. As well as the universal praise, it has been a huge word- of-mouth (口头的) hit. There're customers returning to buy multiple copies as gifts. Normal People strengthened Sally Rooney's reputation as the voice of her generation and one of the most exciting novelists around today. Its success is a testament to the health of literary fiction and indicates that there